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bowl

Object type

Museum number

PDF,A.483

Description

Porcelain bowl. The bowl has a white body and blue-toned glaze. There is a petal panel incised on the exterior, flower scroll around the cavetto, and fruiting branch in the well. There is a mark on the base.

Production place

Materials

Ware

Technique

Dimensions

Inscriptions

Inscription Type

mark

Inscription Language

Chinese

Inscription Comment

Xuande mark and period

Curator's comments

Published PDF date : MingRoom 95 label text:

PDF A483

Lianzi [lotus bud] bowl with incised fruiting branch

Xuande white wares are often bluer in tone than those made during his grandfather’s, the Yongle emperor’s, reign. The shape of this bowl was first used in the Yongle period (AD 1403–24). It is called a 蓮子(lianzi ‘lotus bud’) bowl and outside is incised with a design of lotus petals. Inside it is incised with flower scrolls and fruiting branch. Potters also used the shape of this bowl and this style of decoration at Jingdezhen for underglaze blue bowls in both the Yongle and Xuande eras. The base of this bowl has a six-character Xuande reign mark in underglaze cobalt-blue. The bowl has a white body with a blue-tinged transparent glaze.